2023-05-24 16:18:38
KATHMANDU. Nepal’s public prosecutor’s office on Wednesday charged 30 people, including a former deputy prime minister, a former interior minister and a prominent human rights advocate, with taking money from Nepali citizens in exchange for promises to give them false documents identifying them as Bhutanese refugees. suitable to be located in overseas countries.
The case has rocked the Nepali political world because the detained politicians belong to both the ruling and opposition parties.
Prosecutors filed the suit in the Kathmandu district court following weeks of investigations.
It was not clear if anyone has traveled abroad with the false documents.
Among those charged are former Deputy Prime Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, and former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand. Another defendant is Tek Nath Rizal, who campaigned for the ethnic Nepali minority in Bhutan and spent years in Bhutan jail until he was exiled to Nepal.
Sixteen defendants are in jail and the police were looking for the rest.
More than 100,000 ethnic Nepalis, a Hindu minority that has resided in Bhutan for centuries, were forced to leave the country in the 1990s and resided as refugees in eastern Nepal until most were able to settle in Western countries. .
Many Nepalis dream of migrating to the United States in search of education and employment opportunities.
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